The Russians Have Had Enough

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Gianluca Nigro, Contributing Writer

Thankfully for the world, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, was declared safe and sound last Monday after having been off the radar for well over a week. During his absence, in which there were neither reported sightings nor signs of life, the Russian people and the world began to speculate as to what exactly was taking place.

When a dog goes missing, a whole neighborhood bands together in search, hanging fliers, making phone calls, and alerting animal control. Putin, you are no dog (you wrestle bears, of course), but maybe it should say something about yourself that nobody in Russia gave you the same care and precaution that they give to a mutt when it runs off. No one looked for you or called for you during your absence, there were no heartbroken children sad about this hiatus; for all they knew, you were dead. But instead of worrying or panicking, they were having fun making fake tombstones for you and speculating over your proposed disease, death, coup, or lovechild. I think the scariest thought for most of the world, above all else, was that a woman that you got a little bit too close with may have spawned an animal with half your genes.

Vlad, maybe it’s the way your present yourself that makes people wish you were dead, maybe it is because you do things like laugh in the faces of Russians who have the will to put your arrogance behind themselves for a moment and actually worry about you. Coming out after over ten days of isolation and making a joke out of those who were scared that karma caught up with you probably wasn’t your best PR stunt, but then again, neither was taking the job of President and then not letting your people know you existed for ten days somewhere over the course of that presidency.

Mr. Putin, I’m an American and I’m proud of it, and you’re a Russian, and I don’t believe you if you say that you’re proud of it. If I were granted with the opportunity to lead this country, I would spend every possible hour that I could working with the people in this nation to make it better. Every waking moment of my life that wasn’t spent with my family would be spent with the problems that face America today. Your nation is in economic decline, it is involving itself in invasions and wars, and it is being sanctioned by the UN almost monthly. 35% of the wealth in Russia, a country of 144 million people, is held by 110 people; while millions of others are struggling in poverty and dying of disease and starvation. In those ten days, while you were living the life of Vladimir Putin, people were suffering, and you could have saved them, but you didn’t, because frankly, I think you have given up, I think you bit off more than you could chew, I don’t think you know how to solve problems. Someone else would work wonders for Russia if they had your job, and no, I don’t consider murdering your political opponent Boris Nemstov, and staging the suicides of numerous Ukrainian politicians (who all have families and constituents that actually appreciate them) “working wonders”. Shame on you Mr. Putin, shame on you.